Table 4.
Effect of amino acids-mineral complexed on the organ weight and intestine length of layer chicks at 35 D, reared under thermoneutral conditions.
Treatments | Liver |
Thymus |
Spleen |
Bursa |
Pancreas |
Intestine |
Cecum |
Intestine |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
(g) | (cm) | |||||||
IM1 | 11.51 | 1.93b | 1.60 | 1.34 | 1.19 | 24.53 | 11.30a | 113.78 |
AACM2 | 11.72 | 2.10a | 1.61 | 1.27 | 1.2 | 24.76 | 12.20b | 113.15 |
P-value | 0.393 | 0.031 | 0.930 | 0.412 | 0.667 | 0.713 | <0.01 | 0.462 |
SEM | 0.117 | 0.172 | 0.053 | 0.040 | 0.067 | 0.021 | 0.442 | 0.125 |
a,bMeans lacking a common superscript letter differ, P < 0.05.
IM: inorganic mineral.
AACM: amino acids-mineral complexed.